Cocaine barons, Fish barons, Knaves of Diamonds, etc the list goes on and on . Are you surprised ! These are not new to Sierra Leone. Endemic corruption has been the hallmark of the modus operandi and modus vivendi of most of Sierra Leone's public officials since the mid 1960's. Sierra Leonean's in the diaspora act as if this is all new. Some individuals with twisted minds and without an iota of asocial conscience who have pillaged our beloved nation for the last half century believe that a crime is only a crime when and if you get caught. There is strong evidence to believe that using Sierra Leone as a transit point for smuggling of cocaine and other drugs to Europe has been longstanding practice going on for the past four decades.If Ernest Koroma means business he has to set an example in the current cocaine case with stiff penalties to include long prison terms at Mafanta. The judiciary may attemptto (den sef want for get den yone pan dis case) delay cases as prospects of been lured into accepting bribes for suspects or the accused looms around. Who is going to police the legal system.The Anti-Corruption entity remains as impotent as it was under the Kabba government ! God help Sierra Leone!!!

Mr. Koroma, corruption is an erradicable predicate of the human condition, both on ecclesiastical and secular grounds. Rome had a substantial dose; the one thousand year Christian Commonwealth in Europe had some; and the states that succeeeded the "Christian Roman Empire," the bourgeois states of modern Europe and Europe's ARGUABLE extension in the New World, the USA have a fair dose of the phenomenon corruption.

Accordingly, Sierra Leone is in good company, on the surface.

A closer look, however, uncovers a valley deep difference: the Sierra Leonean State is founded and thrives on corruption, which simply means that public officials refuse to follow the rules laid down (corruption in the absence of an averred "rule of law" is inconceivable) to advance their personal pecuniary interests.

I now assert that the head of state, EBK, by definition is corrupt. The currrent problem of the plane full of cocaine will eventually implicate him.

Actually, politicians in a state founded on corruption are strictu sensu irrelevant: the real players stoke the fires of corruption, and you will never see their names mentioned in Sierra Leonean newspapers. Accordingly, freeedom of speech is a paper tiger. Ditto: the rule of law. I am therefore asserting that the real handlers of the politicians are indifferent to a democratic dispensation, because democracy or no: Sierra Leone is a land of pillage, and politicians, democratic or no, facilitate the same.

The solution to the problem is obvious.